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...question. However, Kelley continued to press Healy, saying the council would have possessed more useful information had Healy provided a “three-page resolution instead of a three-paragraph one.” “I’m not in favor of reports for the sake of reports,” Healy responded. Several other councillors, including Henrietta Davis and Brian Murphy, voiced their agreement with the manager and expressed their frustration at the number of reports Kelley requests from the manager’s office at each meeting...
...Kounomiya Shrine, where a throng of around 9,000 men wearing only loincloths attempt to lay their hands on him as thousands of spectators watch. The naked man is supposed to collect the bad luck and impurities of all who touch him. The crowd can get overly enthusiastic (sake is involved), so the man is protected by guards-but he still ends up pummeled and bruised by the conclusion of the festival. Then he ritually transfers the amassed bad luck to piles of glutinous rice balls for safe burial, dons his clothes and leaves. As for the half-naked throng...
...Where a formal industry or hotel course doesn't yet exist, there may be a casual class to drop in on. In Tokyo, various kinds of sake are explained by independent expert John Gauntner, sake-world.com, in English-language seminars staged about once a month. Popular with expats and tourists, the events typically draw about 40 people and are held in restaurants or sake pubs. Each seminar costs $60 (including a meal) and lasts about three hours. "Going to these seminars helps people know what to look for, what makes one kind of sake different from another," says former participant Melinda...
Petri Professor of Law Einer R. Elhauge ’82 added that though he doesn’t think Harvard “could find anyone better to be president,” he hopes that “for the law school’s sake, we don’t lose her to the university...
...Wear (Abbeville; 320 pages; $95) by Julie Schafler Dale is a stunning survey of a movement dedicated to clothes for art's sake. The designers of these garments (weavers, needleworkers and painters) sacrifice the practical for the spectacular. These robes of many colors shimmer with feathers, beads, buttons and metallic threads. An ordinary flight jacket, when encrusted with 25,000 brass safety pins, is transformed into glittering armor. Knitted into a wool jacket, along with abstract images of the sun and its rays, are words by Walt Whitman ("Give me the splendid, silent sun/With all his beamsfull?dazzling"). A book...